Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. MGKINLEY AND WV. VILKIE, OF MAYVILLE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVED WASH ING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 15,33l dated December 6, 1864.

To all whom it may concern bars have plungers F attached to their lower Beit known that we, E. MCKINLEY and W. ends, one to each, the face sides of said plun VVILKIE, both of Mayville, In the county of gers being inclined and tinted horizontally, as Dodge and State of W'isconsin,haveinvented a shown at g, and their bottoms being rounded new and Improved Olothes-WashingMachine5 or curved, as shown at h, the bottoms h workand we do hereby declare that the following is a ing just clear of the bottom a of the suds-box. full,clear,and exact description thereof, which 1 Each plunger-bar E has al vertical oblong will enable those skilled in the art to make slot, i, made in it,in which cranksj,on a hor and use the same, reference heilig had to the 1 izontal shaft, G, are fitted, said cranks being accompanying drawings, forming a part ot' alternately in reverse positions, as shown in this specilication, in which- Fig. 2, so that the two sets ot' pl'nngers may Figure 1 is a side sectional view of our inon turning the shaft G be moved simultane- Yention taken in the line 1/ y, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, ously in opposite directions, theslots i admita horizontal section ot' the same taken in the ting ofthe cranksj operating or swinging the line t x, Fig. l. pl u nger-bars E as the shaft is turned.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- The bars E work through slots k in the top spending parts in the two ligures. of the suds-box, and the clothes to be washed This invention consists in the employment are placed inthe suds box and are compressed or use ot' two sets ot' swinging plungers opby the plungers F against the inclined front erated by a crank-shaft which has the cranks b, the springs O, when the plungers come placed alternately in opposite directions and in cont-.1ct with the clothes, yielding or giving titted in oblong vertical slots in the plungerso as to admit of a complete revolution of the bars, the latter being suspended on a shaft cranksj without straining any ofthe working the bearings of which are et the upper ends parts, and causing theplungers to squeeze the ot' springs, all being arranged in such amanclothes, the pressure being proportioi'late to ner that the two sets of plunger-s will by the the strength ot' the springs O. f turning of the crank-shaft be movedsimul- We do not claim swinging plungers in taneously in opposite dilections and alten clothes washing machines,t'or they have been nately act against or upon the clothes in the f previously used; but

sudsbox, and with a pressure due to the le do claim as new and desire to secure by springs to which the shaft ot' the plunger bars L Letters V`Patentp is connected. The' combination of the yielding shaft D,

A represents a suds-box the bottom a ot'j plunger Fat the lower ends of' the bars E, which is curved upward at itsA front end, as which are suspended on theshat't D,thecrankshown in Fig. l, b being the front, and c the shaft Gr, with the cranksj fitted in the oblong back of the suds-box and d d its sides, the slots t' in the bars E, and the suds box A,'a1l front b being slightly inclined. To each side arranged to operate substantially as and for d of the suds-box there is firmly attached an thev purpose herein set forth. upright, e, and these uprights have vertical ElHRAIM MCKINLEY. iat springs O attached to them, at the up- \VASHINGTON WlLKlE. per ends of which there are bearings f, to Titnessesz receive the ends ot' a shaft, D, on which a se- GoT'rLIEB ALBERT, ries of bars, E, are suspended loosely. These HEINRICH BcEHMEu. 

